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The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

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1743 points caspii | 1 comments | 07 Jun 21 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ilamont ◴[07 Jun 21 22:47 UTC] No.27428272[source]▶
Same story for various Wordpress plugins and widgety things that live in site footers.

Google has turned into a cesspool. Half the time I find myself having to do ridiculous search contortions to get somewhat useful results - appending site: .edu or .gov to search strings, searching by time periods to eliminate new "articles" that have been SEOed to the hilt, or taking out yelp and other chronic abusers that hijack local business results.

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colordrops ◴[07 Jun 21 23:43 UTC] No.27428807[source]▶
Google Search is ripe for disruption. It's been over 20 years now and they are not dynamic or interesting at all anymore.
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LeoPanthera ◴[07 Jun 21 23:47 UTC] No.27428840[source]▶
I still think that the "Yahoo!" style web directory is a good model. A catalogue of hand-curated links has increasing value as the quality of Google results goes down.

I was briefly going to write "I'm surprised that DMOZ[1] still exists" but it says "Copyright 2017 AOL" at the bottom so maybe it doesn't.

Edit: ...and using the search box results in a 404 so I guess it's really dead huh.

Edit 2: Apparently this is the successor! https://curlie.org/en

[1]: https://dmoz-odp.org

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1. Apocryphon ◴[08 Jun 21 00:05 UTC] No.27428976[source]▶
The creation and maintenance of such a directory might additionally be more feasible now because sadly there are much fewer personal or independent websites instead of content hosted on large platforms.